Journal article
Interactive optical trapping shows that confinement is a determinant of growth in a mixed yeast culture
Applying a newly developed user-interactive optical trapping system, we controllably surrounded individual cells of one yeast species, Hanseniaspora uvarum, with viable cells of another yeast species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, thus creating a confinement of the former. Growth of surrounded and non-surrounded H. uvarum cells was followed under a microscope by determining their generation time.
The average generation time of surrounded H. uvarum cells was 15% higher than that of non-surrounded cells thereby showing that the confinement imposed by viable S. cerevisiae cells on H. uvarum inhibits growth of the latter. This study is the first to demonstrate that confinement is a determinant of growth in a microbial ecosystem. (c) 2005 Federation of European Microbiological Societies.
Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2005 |
Pages: | 155-159 |
ISSN: | 15746968 and 03781097 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.03.008 |
ORCIDs: | 0000-0002-4323-5446 , 0000-0003-2718-9280 and Rodrigo, P.J. |